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One can't spell "emo icon" without "emoticon", but I never thought it would come to this.
When you are being interviewed by a NY Times reporter, choose your similes carefully:
Prowess at Guitar Hero doesn't necessarily equal expertise on a real guitar. At River Gods, Ben Azar, a 27-year-old guitar student at the Berklee College of Music in Boston, eyed the game's guitar controller skeptically when it was handed to him. Just press the buttons to the beat of the song, he was told by one of the event's organizers.
As Van Halen's "You Really Got Me" started, Mr. Azar watched the screen as his fingers worked the frets, but he often looked confused, unsure why a note was missed or exactly what rhythm the guitar line was following.
After finishing his song, Mr. Azar said that using the Guitar Hero controller forced him to concentrate more on pressing buttons than preening like a rock god. "It's very different," Mr. Azar said. "It's like making love to a rubber doll."
One can't spell "emo icon" without "emoticon"
Sure one can.
What one can't do, young Stanley, is spell "emoticon" without "emo icon".
DJ Presses Play in a Position, I ask you to assemble a show featuring the Varitone Mark VI, lyricon, Cwejman Driver, the WX5, and other EWIs, for one listener/shopper's comparison needs.
Maybe this song, too.
I can't play that, it's riddled with FCCs; besides, you never listen anyway.
Why don't you just get someone who plays a conventional synthesizer?
Saxsynths are riddled with FCCs?
I love listening to your show for the several consecutive seconds then KZSU will stream before failing.
No, "Fucking Boyfriend" is, you.
Other people manage to listen! Also "then" s/b "that", I think.
I personally can't spell emoticon without emotion.
Yes to "that".
Stanley listens because you play his band.
Wow. I shouldn't try to be witty when in the manner of Becks, as it were. Ahem. Crap. (Woo, radio show!)
You can't spell "Woo, radio show!" without "Wow, rad!"
I try not to play multiple tracks by the same artist during a given show unless it's thematically appropriate or necessary, Jesus.
I figured -- I was just thinking that listening to those studies is kind of like eating potato chips.
I can't believe the last three songs the guy before me played were by the Beatles, Coldplay, and Green Day. Christ on a crutch.
I just got a hilarious request, for Michelle, by the Beatles. I told them I wouldn't play it; they asked why; I asked if they were listening ("it's turned down"). They then turned to: Boz Scaggs. I suggested they actually listen for a while before making a request.
16 gets it right. There's a surprising number of people who somehow combine a total lack of interest in music with a desire to be a DJ. Weeding them out shouldn't be hard, but during the summer college radio stations take what they can get.
I requested some electric woodwind instruments, and you won't play those, either.
If you recommend some artists, Armsmasher, I'll look into them. I don't know offhand who's using wind synths.
If you promise to play some awesome tabla music, I'll listen.
Come on ben, fulfill the requests. It's not like the kind of station that actually plays "Michelle" by the Beatles actually takes requests anymore.
Did I scoff when someone requested Bryan Adams, and then when he was told by me that I had checked and we didn't have any Bryan Adams, said "Duhhh...that's weird" and requested Pat Benatar? No! I played a Pat Benatar song. Although it turned out that our Pat Benatar album jacket was empty, so I played something by Vog instead.
Play "Michelle" accompanied by Phil Minton making noises or something.
19: Look at you, shitting on young love.
Phil Minton has an album of Hendrix covers.
Think of it this way, Ned: you wouldn't call up a hiphop station and request "Michelle", would you? Or a classical station and request Boz Scaggs?
Actually I was under the impression that there was No Such Thing as Making Requests, what with these shows being preplanned and the playlists posted and whatnot.
Think of it this way, Ned: you wouldn't call up a hiphop station and request "Michelle", would you? Or a classical station and request Boz Scaggs?
No, I guess that people should be able to figure out within about thirty seconds that your show is not in the "Michelle" format. With mine, it might take a few minutes.
The argument 26 suggests takes as a premise that a listener to your show would be able to figure out what types of songs your show does and does not play. I haven't listened for a while prior to today, so I'm not that confident in my judgment, but I think that's false.
On a musical note, Cheap Trick is a triathlete friend's sponsor. (Not in AA)
29 to 30.
However, Magna, for example, sounds superficially like classic rock. So it does depend on what he's playing.
The playlists are posted in real-time, not ahead of time. If someone requested something good, that I could work in, I'd play it. I've actually done that once, when someone at WHPK requested some Lightning Bolt.
Magna s/b Magma s/h some diacritics.
30: I'm a musical dumbass, and I could tell after listening to this for about five minutes that it isn't a three-minute-pop-song kind of show.
NB there will be some three-minute poppy songs in this show.
28: Again, yay. Background on Conlon Nancarrow (Wikipedia) for the curious.
I'll work on the tabla angle for next time, Jack.
Thanks! I've had a hankering for a while.
Even without 36, 35 is wrong. My reasoning is: the range of songs you'll hear on a top 40 (or top 40-type) show is very constrained. The songs you'll hear on a hip hop show are somewhat constrained. But if there's a show where it sounds like very wide range of songs is being chosen from, all of which up to this point have been, among other things, intstrumental and non-poppy (I tuned in late, maybe I missed lyrics), it's reasonable to expect that you might hear a poppy, mainstream song because that choice is just as in keeping with the eclecticity of the show as any other choice.
36: Your version of "three minute poppy" is not exactly what most people mean by that, Ben.
Mucca Pazza's "Chick Habit" is total Gypsy pop.
"Mucca Pazza's "Chick Habit" "
Oooh, if that's the April March/France Gall song, and I think it is, it's very hard to do badly.
